Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'wast' occurs 88 times in the standard works.

30 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'wast' in the standard works and contain 34.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 12 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 16:4-13 (10 in 10 verses)

Ezek. 28:13-15 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 15:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 26:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 38:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 4:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 33:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 58 90 148
Gen. 4 0 4
Lev. 0 2 2
Num. 0 3 3
Deut. 8 2 10
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Sam. 3 0 3
1 Kgs. 0 2 2
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 1 2 3
Neh. 0 2 2
Job 3 3 6
Ps. 2 4 6
Prov. 0 2 2
Isa. 7 26 33
Jer. 2 8 10
Ezek. 24 20 44
Joel 0 3 3
Amos 0 2 2
Obad. 1 0 1
Micah 0 1 1
Nahum 0 2 2
Zeph. 0 2 2
Hag. 0 2 2
Mal. 0 1 1
NT 8 5 13
BM 12 18 30
DC 4 9 13
PGP 6 1 7
TOTAL 88 123 211

Isa. 5:6
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isa. 5:17
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

Isa. 6:11
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

Isa. 15:1
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

Isa. 19:5
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

Isa. 23:1
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

Isa. 23:14
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

Isa. 24:1
Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Isa. 33:8
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

Isa. 34:10
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

Isa. 37:18
Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

Isa. 37:26
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

Isa. 42:15
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

Isa. 49:17
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

Isa. 49:19
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

Isa. 51:3
For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Isa. 52:9
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

Isa. 54:16
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

Isa. 58:12
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Isa. 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Isa. 60:12
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Isa. 60:18
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

Isa. 61:4
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

Isa. 64:11
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.